{"id":233,"date":"2009-04-19T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2009-04-19T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T18:16:00","slug":"pop-up-the-windows-calendar-with-a-single-hotkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/04\/pop-up-the-windows-calendar-with-a-single-hotkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Up the Windows Calendar with a Single Hotkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"dnn_ctr583_ContentPane\" class=\"DNNAligncenter\"><span id=\"spBody\" class=\"Forum_Normal\"><\/p>\n<p><span>you can use Win+B, then Left, then Enter to pop up this calendar with the keyboard (or you can just click once <span style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial;\" class=\"IL_LINK_STYLE\">on the clock<\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But this can be done with a single keystroke with an AutoHotkey script.<\/p>\n<p>What we&#8217;ll do is assign the F12 key to send the keystrokes instead of having to do them manually. Create a new file named something.ahk and then paste in the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>#InstallKeybdHook<br \/>#Persistent<br \/>#HotkeyInterval,100<br \/>SetKeyDelay, -1<\/p>\n<p>f12::<br \/>{<br \/>send, {lwin down}b{lwin up}<br \/>sleep 10<br \/>send, {left}<br \/>sleep 10<br \/>send, {enter}<br \/>Return<br \/>}<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Save the file, and now you can double-click on it to launch it.<\/p>\n<p>At this point you can use the F12 key to pop open the calendar. If you want to close the script out, there&#8217;s an icon in the system tray.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: You can substitute another key instead of F12 if you want. You could also add #NoTrayIcon to keep it from putting an icon into the system tray.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:how2geek.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you can use Win+B, then Left, then Enter to pop up this calendar with the keyboard (or you can just click once on the clock). But this can be done with a single keystroke with an AutoHotkey script. What we&#8217;ll do is assign the F12 key to send the keystrokes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","category-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}